About the company:
Ascendix is a software and services technology company based in the U.S. with teams in USA, Ukraine and Portugal. We specialize in building solutions for globally-focused businesses that look to leverage cloud computing, commercial and open-source technologies for big data, search, applications, and cross-platform mobility. We have deep experience in Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com CRM platforms and offer products, services, and productivity modules on both platforms.
Ascendix is constantly striving to grow and evolve our own products and services teams to be increasingly cloud service and platform focused, concentrating on Azure, Amazon, and SalesForce as platform providers. We are looking for the right people who can help our company and our clients utilize the latest cloud computing technologies to address current business challenges.
Ascendix Technologies invites an experienced Business Analyst to join the professional team to work on brand-new client projects. You will take an active part in Pre-Sales activities and work with new projects from the Discovery stage to final delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Interact with the product owner, team, client, and other stakeholders
- Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements elicitation
- Perform customer business process and documentation analysis
- Document and validate requirements
- Create user stories and acceptance criteria for development and testing teams
- Support development team in clarifications of requirements
- Conduct meetings, presentations, and demos
- Participate in backlog grooming, defining, and approving upcoming release scope
- Prioritize features, work on roadmap
- Manage change requests
- Facilitate the definition of UX/UI approaches and prototyping
- Perform acceptance testing and validation
- Create various artifacts, such as SRSs, minimal schema and configuration requirements, presentations, user guides, introduction materials and release notes
- Maintain actual products and projects documentation, update Wiki
Requirements:
- 3+ years in BA activities
- Previous experience covered tasks in the knowledge areas: BA planning and monitoring, Elicitation and collaboration, Requirements life cycle management, Requirements analysis and design definition);
- Previous experience of Pre-Sales and Discovery stages
- Practical experience in applying of key BA technics (use cases, user stories, root cause analysis, prototyping, prioritization, functional decomposition, items tracking etc.)
- Practical experience with tools used for BA activities and team work (modeling and prototyping tools, tracking systems, communication tools, etc.)
- Practical experience as BA in formal and Agile SDLC
- At least upper-intermediate of English (both written and verbal);
- Excellent soft skills (communication, presentation, negotiation, conflict resolution, etc.);
- Ability to handle multi-threading activities
Ascendix offers you:
Healthcare:
- Paid time off — 20 working days
- Paid sick leaves— 5 working days
- Insurance policy
- Sport program
Career and professional growth:
- Individual development plan
- Opportunity to collaborate with Resource Manager to develop professional skills and career achievements
- Technical leads and mentors
- Regular technical performance reviews and 360 Evaluation
Learning and Development:
- Free access to the company accounts on educational platforms (Udemy, Pluralsight)
- Variety of internal training opportunities and knowledge sharing
- External training and conferences
- Reimbursement for English
- External mentor and coach program
Corporate spirit:
- Remote work with possibility to attend comfortable and cozy co-working space
- Online and offline events & team-buildings
- Anniversary and Birthday presents
- Friendly and calm atmosphere in the company
- Open management and well-established processes
